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		TOURISTS GUIDE FOR EDINBURGH AND LOTHIANS In our tourist guide we have covered the most popular tourist locations throughout this region of Scotland. Use the clickmap or select a location from the menu to see information for that location. Locations covered by this tourist guide include: Stirling, Linlithgow, Queensferry, Edinburgh, Musselburgh, Aberlady, Haddington, Dunbar, St Abbs, Eyemouth, Duns, Kelso, Melsrose, Selkirk, Peebles, Biggar and Lanark. Click the links below to visit our tourist guides to other regions of Scotland. Tourist Guide: Northern Highlands, Ross-shire, Cromarty, Caithness and Sutherland Tourist Guide: Inverness, Fort William, Lochaber and Isle of Skye Tourist Guide: Moray Firth, Grampian, Aberdeen and Royal Deeside Tourist Guide: Perthshire, Dundee, Angus and Fife Tourist Guide: Argyll, Oban, Loch Lomond, Trossachs, Isle of Mull and Isle of Islay Tourist Guide: Edinburgh, Lothians, Eyemouth, North Berwick and Haddington Tourist Guide: Glasgow, Ayrshire, Clyde Valley and Clyde tourist resorts Tourist Guide: Dumfries, Galloway, Melrose, Hawick and Border Regions


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Aberlady
		The village of Aberlady has 18th and 19th century buildings and is located on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth approx. 7 miles from Edinburgh. The entire coastline of the Firth of Forth and has many fine sandy beaches. Within easy reach are Dirleton Castle, Hailes Castle and Tentallen Castle. Its proximity to Edinburgh together with good transport links make it a popular destination for those who want to enjoy Edinburgh's many attractions without staying in the city itself. Local activities include golfing, walking and water sports.
Aberlady
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Biggar
		Biggar is an attractive town whose layout still follows the course of the Roman road and the modern A702. At its centre lies the market place, long, broad, climbing gently as you move from west to east. The town has many small family run shops as well as a range of hotels, cafes, pubs and accommodation providers. Biggar is a good centre and base for touring southern Scotland.
Biggar Market
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Dunbar
		This pleasant seaside town has some notable Georgian architecture and two picturesque harbours. Dunbar Castle beside the harbour was formerly important in Scotland's history but is now in ruins. Between Dunbar and another pleasant East Lothian resort, North Berwick, is the John Muir Country Park where there is a good choice of seaside walks. Near North Berwick is Tantallon Castle, a spectacular fortified headland with fine views to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth.
Dunbar Harbour
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Duns
		Close to the village of Duns is Manderston Mansion who's first owner Sir James Millar flouted his wealth by including in it the world's only silver staircase. Within easy reach is Paxton House with its pillared portico and projecting wings. Paxton House, completed in 1763, has receipts from cabinetmakers Thomas Chippendale and William Trotter match Scotland's finest collection of 18th- and early 19th-century furniture, still in its original position in Paxton's exquisitely plastered interiors. The 19th-century picture gallery is furnished in the grandest Regency manner, and today displays paintings from the National Galleries of Scotland.
Duns Manderston Mansion
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Edinburgh
		Scotland's capital makes a strong first impression with a city skyline that includes a dramatic castle perched on a high crag. The Royal Mile runs down from it, through the high tenements of the old town, to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, official residence of British royalty when in Scotland. Neoclassical buildings and magnificent museums, such as the wonderful National Gallery of Scotland, add to the city's reputation as a centre for the arts. It is most famous for the annual Edinburgh Festival in late August, when music, drama, and dance events take place at venues all over the city.
Edinburgh Castle
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Eyemouth
		Eyemouth is a fishing community with a harbour built along the mouth of the Eye Water. The Eyemouth Museum, containing the Eyemouth Tapestry, is in a converted church. The tapestry was inspired by the local community's wish to commemorate a fishing disaster in 1881, when a sudden storm claimed the lives of 129 fishermen from the local fleet. A short distance away, at the other end of Coldingham Bay there is another harbour at tiny St Abbs. On the cliffs at St Abbs Head is a nature reserve with spectacular seabird colonies.
Eyemouth Harbour
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Haddington
		Haddington has one of the most attractive town centres in Scotland with fine Georgian façades, a market cross, a courthouse, a town house, and other fine civic buildings. The area around the River Tyne is also attractive—it includes the picturesque Nungate Bridge, possibly dating from the 13th century, and the church of St Mary, dating from the 14th century. Lennoxlove House is to the south; it is of interest as much for its associations with the Stuart dynasty as for the collection of painting and furniture from Hamilton Palace, which was demolished because of mining subsidence.
Haddington and River Tyne
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Kelso
		Kelso is an attractive Borders town on the River Tweed.. Its abbey is a ruined fragment, destroyed by invading English forces in 1545. To the west is Floors Castle, sometimes described as the largest inhabited house in Scotland, is the home of the Duke of Roxburgh. An impressive collection of furniture and other treasures can be viewed, while there are also attractive gardens and walks. There is a fine view of Floors from the handsome five-arched Kelso Bridge (1803) across the River Tweed in Kelso. The town has a local museum, Kelso Museum and The Turret Gallery.
Kelso and River Tweed
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Lanark
		Lanark is an attractive, lively town serving the local mainly farming community. The wife of William Wallace was killed here on the orders of Sir William Heselrig. Wallace was visiting his wife, Marion Braidfoot, and his baby daughter in Lanark when the English Sheriff, Sir William Heselrig, learned of his presence. Wallace escaped capture when English troops arrived from Lanark Castle to arrest him, but Sir William Heselrig had his wife killed when she refused to reveal where Wallace was hiding. That same night Wallace attacked and took Lanark Castle. Wallace killed Heselrig in his bed, then ordered the slaughter the entire English garrison.
Lanark High Street
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Linlithgow
		Linlithgow is chiefly visited for the ruins of Linlithgow Palace, the birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1542. This once-magnificent building was burned (accidentally) by government troops during the last Jacobite rebellion (1745-1746). Its chapel and Great Hall date from the 15th century. Bo'ness, to the north, is the main terminus of the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, a re-creation of a typical branch line with steam trains. Also within easy reach of Linlithgow is the House of the Binns, a 17th-century mansion, and Blackness Castle, a 15th-century coastal stronghold.
Linlithgow Palace
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Melrose
		Though not a large place, Melrose is one of the most attractive of border towns. Attractions include Melrose Abbey, where the heart of Robert the Bruce is said to be buried at his request, one of the four great Border Abbeys. Closeby are Priorwood Gardens and the Trimontium Exhibition, which tells the story of the Roman fort built at Newstead in the shadow of the Eildon Hills, whose triple-peaked profile gave the fort its name. The Eildon Hills themselves offer magnificent views over the rolling border countryside.
Melrose Abbey
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Musselburgh
		The village of Musselburgh is located on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth a few miles east of Edinburgh. Musselburgh has a pleasant harbour now almost entirely used by pleasure craft. Its proximity to Edinburgh together with good transport links make it a popular destination for those who want to enjoy Edinburgh's many attractions without staying in the city itself.
The Harbour Musselburgh
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North Berwick
		North Berwick is a pleasantly old-fashioned seaside resort, with Victorian and Edwardian guest houses extending along the shore and excellent golf courses nearby. The main street extends to the rocky harbour containing The Scottish Sea Bird Centre, and dividing a pair of wide, sandy beaches. Facing each other are the uncompromising silhouettes of Tantallon Castle and the basalt island of Bass Rock, guarding the town. The Bass Rock is home to thousands of sea birds and is circled by regular 90-minute boat trips from the harbour.
North Berwick Harbour
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Peebles
		Peebles is a pleasant town, set in the border hills, within easy reach of Edinburgh's many attractions. Within the town there is a small local museum and the Cornice Museum of Ornamental Plasterwork (a local speciality). A pleasant riverside walk by the River Tweed leads to medieval Neidpath Castle. East of Peebles, at Innerleithen, is the fascinating Robert Smail's Printing Works, where a local printer's workshop has been preserved. Nearby Traquair House is reputed to be the oldest inhabited house in Scotland and is another popular tourist destination.
Peebles and River Tweed
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Queensferry
		Queensferry is situated on the south shore of the Firth of Forth midway between the Forth Rail and Road Bridges. For centuries a prosperous ferry crossing point, this small town has a wealth of historic buildings lining its cobbled streets. The famous Forth Rail Bridge was built in 1890 while the Forth Road Bridge was opened officially in 1964. Its towers are 512 feet high, its centre span measures 3,300 feet and is 150 feet above the waters of the Firth of Forth. Overall, it is 1.5 miles long and the deck weighs 10,000 tons.
The Road Bridge Queensferry
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Selkirk
		A small town with its own distinctive personality, Selkirk's main point of interest is Halliwell's House Museum. This houses a wealth of information on local life and trade. An audiovisual display explains the significance of the Selkirk Common Riding–the commemoration of Scottish losses at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513. The ceremonies include riding the boundaries of the town on horseback. The town hall, in the market place, was Sir Walter Scott's courtroom when he was sheriff of the county in the early 18th century. He is buried at Dryburgh Abbey, to the east of Selkirk.
Selkirk
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St Abbs
		The village of St Abbs grew around the harbour. Here you can explore the quays and watch the boats, or simply wander around the lower village. The lower part of the village is overlooked from the cliffs by lines of what were originally fishermen's cottages running parallel to the cliff edge. Three miles west of St Abbs Head itself is Fast Castle. All that remains today are the ruins of a castle built in the 1500s, on the site of one that dated back to the 1300s. It stands on a headland of rocks surrounded on all sides by cliffs.
St Abbs from the harbour
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Stirling
		With its crag-top castle dominating the old town, Stirling played a central role in Scotland's tumultuous history. Stirling Castle formerly guarded the routes between the Highlands and the Lowlands, and below its walls Robert the Bruce defeated the English at the crucial Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The Bannockburn Heritage Centre tells the story and is just one of a range of historical attractions within the town. Pageants, street theatre, and ceilidhs featuring pipe bands often take place in the streets of Stirling in the summer.
Stirling Castle
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